Quotes: Cynic, Cynicism

(someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street)

Quotations

Give a cynic an inch and he’ll measure it to make sure.
—Anonymous


A cynic is someone who, when smelling flowers, looks around for a coffin.
—Modification of an Oscar Wilde quote


The cynic puts all human actions into two classes: openly bad and secretly bad.
—Henry Ward Beecher


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